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8: "Le Morse" = Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758), ♂
9: "Walruss" = Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758), ♀ + juv.

English: Atlantic Walrus sketches, copied from:

8: Georges Louis Leclerc's 1765 Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière vol. 10 (from a stuffed male specimen)

9: Hessel Gerritsz's 1613 Histoire du pays nomme Spitsberghe (from a living female and calf)

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1853 (published 1854)

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Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (vol. 1852, page 115)

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R.C.West

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